Westlock-Sturgeon was a provincial electoral district in Alberta, Canada mandated to return a single member to the Legislative Assembly of Alberta using first-past-the-post balloting from 1986 to 1993.[1]
 Alberta electoral district | |
|---|---|
| Defunct provincial electoral district | |
| Legislature | Legislative Assembly of Alberta |
| District created | 1986 |
| District abolished | 1993 |
| First contested | 1986 |
| Last contested | 1989 |
History edit
Boundary history edit
| Members of the Legislative Assembly | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Assembly | Years | Member | Party | |
| See Athabasca 1905-1986, Redwater-Andrew 1971-1986, and St. Albert 1905-1986. | ||||
| 21st | 1986-1989 | Nicholas Taylor | Liberal | |
| 22nd | 1989-1993 | |||
| See Barrhead-Westlock 1993-2004, Redwater 1993-2004, and Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert 1993-2012 | ||||
The riding was created for the 1986 election from parts of three ridings: the town of Westlock was transferred from Athabasca, while the part of Sturgeon County around Morinville was transferred from St. Albert, along with a small part of Redwater-Andrew.
The riding was abolished only seven years later at the next redistribution. The northern half of the riding was transferred to Barrhead-Westlock, with Morinville and the area east of it going to Redwater and the remainder to Spruce Grove-Sturgeon-St. Albert.
Representation history edit
The riding's only MLA was Nicholas Taylor, who had led the Liberal Party through its decade-long drought. His election in 1986, along with three other Liberals in Edmonton and Calgary, was a breakthrough for the party.
He was replaced by Laurence Decore as party leader only two years later, but was re-elected in Westlock-Sturgeon in 1989. For the second term in a row, Taylor was the only Liberal MLA in rural Alberta. When the riding was abolished in 1993, he went on to serve as MLA for Redwater.
Election results edit
1986 edit
| 1986 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Nicholas Taylor | 4,523 | 38.95% | – | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Lawrence Kluthe | 4,049 | 34.87% | – | ||||
| New Democratic | Bruce Lennon | 1,996 | 17.19% | – | ||||
| Representative | Tom Carleton | 911 | 7.84% | – | ||||
| Confederation of Regions | Adam Hauch | 78 | 0.67% | – | ||||
| Communist | Laurent St. Denis | 29 | 0.25% | – | ||||
| Heritage | Stan Pearson | 25 | 0.22% | – | ||||
| Total valid votes | 11,611 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 12 | – | – | |||||
| Registered electors / turnout | 18,572 | 62.58% | – | |||||
| Liberal pickup new district. | ||||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Westlock-Sturgeon Official Results 1986 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
1989 edit
| 1989 Alberta general election | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | ||||
| Liberal | Nicholas Taylor | 5,401 | 44.80% | +5.85% | ||||
| Progressive Conservative | Leo Seguin | 4,958 | 41.13% | +6.26% | ||||
| New Democratic | Tom Turner | 1,696 | 14.07% | -3.12% | ||||
| Total valid votes | 12,055 | – | – | |||||
| Rejected, spoiled and declined | 15 | – | – | |||||
| Registered electors / turnout | 19,662 | 61.38% | -1.20% | |||||
| Liberal hold | Swing | -0.21% | ||||||
Source(s)
Source: "Westlock-Sturgeon Official Results 1989 Alberta general election". Alberta Heritage Community Foundation. Retrieved May 21, 2020. | ||||||||
See also edit
References edit
- ^ "Election results for Westlock-Sturgeon". abheritage.ca. Heritage Community Foundation. Archived from the original on December 8, 2010. Retrieved May 22, 2020.
Further reading edit
- Office of the Chief Electoral Officer; Legislative Assembly Office (2006). A Century of Democracy: Elections of the Legislative Assembly of Alberta, 1905-2005. The Centennial Series. Edmonton, AB: Legislative Assembly of Alberta. ISBN 0-9689217-8-7. Retrieved May 25, 2020.
External links edit